In the introduction to his book, Leon Altman states that an emphasis upon ego psychology has caused the dream to fall into disuse. He maintains that psychoanalysis which does not embrace the dream is inexact and incomplete, and regrets that the training of candidates in psychoanalytic institutes today frequently shows serious limitations in their experiencing of their own dreams and in their ability to integrate dreams with the problems their patients bring them. Altman aims 'to make good this deficiency and to complement the help offered in supervision by describing one analyst's method of working with the dream'.

The practice of sharing their experiences with candidates by reporting in continuous case seminars one of their own analyses has been followed by teachers of psychoanalysis in several institutes. This admirable method of teaching can be supplemented by Altman's book, not only in its consideration of the dream but because of the fact that Altman has broadened his discussion of the dream to compose a brief but comprehensive work on psychoanalytic